Pigeon coop
A keeper's loft of homing pigeons — trained birds released long distances and trusted to return.
A pigeon coop in a dream is the dream's image of trained birds released long distances and trusted to come home. The homing pigeon is not held; it is sent and counted on. The dream brings the coop when something in your life — a child sent into the world, a piece of work given to others, a message dispatched — is being trusted to navigate at a distance and find its way back. A coop with all the birds returned by evening is the dream affirming the trust. A coop with empty perches at sundown, the count short, is the dream noting that the release was real and the return was not guaranteed, and what you sent has not all come home.